单词 | rype |
释义 | rypen. Now rare. In Scandinavia: the willow grouse, Lagopus lagopus, or the rock ptarmigan, L. muta; = ripa n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > genus Lagopus > lagopus mutus (ptarmigan) ptarmigan1599 white partridge1610 snow-hen1648 white game1678 lagopus1693 grey fowl1712 rype1744 white grouse1771 rock grouse1785 tanmerack1792 ripa1830 snow-grouse1884 lagopode1901 1744 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 611 Their Birds are the Ryper, or Wood-Partridge, Ravens,..Goldfinches, &c. 1758 tr. N. Horrebow Nat. Hist. Iceland xxxix. 57 Mr. Anderson says, that their finest wild fowl are snipes, quails, and partridges, called ryper, and that they run more than they fly, and are therefore easily catched. 1869 J. Bowden Naturalist in Norway ii. 17 Here..the best reindeer-shooting is to be had; while the rype, or white grouse, the hjerpe, or hazel grouse,..and capercaillie are common. 1882 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck Three in Norway 194 The skipper put up a large brood of ryper. 1894 Fortn. Rev. June 749 All Englishmen may be credited with the knowledge that the rype is a grouse. 1907 G. T. Teasdale-Buckell Compl. Eng. Wing Shot 151 To a great extent it is also felt in pursuit of the rype of Scandinavia. 1922 N. H. Dole Amer. in Spitzbergen I. ii. iv. 306 One of the hunters brought in two gray geese, and nine ryper or Arctic grouse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1744 |
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